DOCTORS should prescribe exercise to help older folk live longer, a study shows. Regular workouts were found to reduce the ...

Exercising too much with a desk job left a man unable to walk from hip and back pain. Simple physical therapy and nutrition ...

Celia Duff, 70, was always a casual exerciser but started doing intense fitness competitions three years ago.

Doing exercise is obviously better than not doing ... downloaded more than 10,000 times, aimed at older people, updated in the last three years, in English and not exclusive to any specific ...

Johns Hopkins Medi cine says as a body ages, tendons get thicker and less elastic. Stretching can help counter this ...

Regular physical activity is often praised for its benefits to physical and mental health, and now, new research has revealed ...

Objective—To assess the effectiveness of exercise programmes in preventing falls (and/or lowering the risk of falls and fall related injuries) in older people. Design—A review of controlled clinical ...

Physical activity improves overall well-being and can help a person maintain a healthy weight and bone density while ...

A doctor has shared the one type of exercise we should all be ... "As people get older they tend to lose muscle and as people do that they become frail and you lose functional capacity and that ...

Firstly, they found that exercise reduces the number of falls over time by around a quarter (23% reduction). This means that if there were 850 falls among 1000 older people doing no fall-preventive ...

The large benefits of tai chi exercise on proprioception may result in the maintenance of balance control in older people. tai chi exercise proprioception kinaesthesis elderly balance control ...